update_bad_phishing_sites broken (again)

[Jeff Earickson]

Gang,

The script MailScanner/bin/update_bad_phishing_sites has been spitting up
errors all weekend:

(57)> ./update_bad_phishing_sites
Reading status from /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/status
Checking that
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/cache/2013-164 exists... ok
Checking that
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/cache/2013-164.52
exists... ok
Failed to retrieve valid current details

I tried the following urls:

http://cdn.mailscanner.info/
http://mailscanner.eu/

within the script and both fail. When I go to either by hand in a browser,
I get the MailScanner
logo, so these sites are not down. Any ideas what broke?

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Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
Senior Server System Administrator
Colby College,
4214 Mayflower Hill,
Waterville ME, 04901-8842
207-859-4214 (fax [phone])
Eastern Time Zone, USA
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[Mark Sapiro]

Post by Jeff Earickson
Gang,
The script MailScanner/bin/update_bad_phishing_sites has been spitting
(57)> ./update_bad_phishing_sites
Reading status from /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/status
Checking that
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/cache/2013-164 exists... ok
Checking that
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/phishingupdate/cache/2013-164.52
exists... ok
Failed to retrieve valid current details
http://cdn.mailscanner.info/
http://mailscanner.eu/

These URLs are both good, but that isn't the problem.

This has been broken for some time. Even though it may not die, it
doesn't update. The current problem appears to be that there is no DNS
TXT record at all for emails.msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com.

See the thread at
<http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-June/100818.html>.

The patch at
<https://github.com/MailScanner/MailScanner/commit/fc0e52d55b0b2ec7e9834f21d4349894103aeb7f>
will work around this problem.

[Noel Butler]

Post by Mark Sapiro
This has been broken for some time. Even though it may not die, it
doesn't update.

I think its dangerous to use something like this which is not updating,
given its purpose, it may be penalising countless hosts that have been
cleaned up months ago.
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